Lucky You!

It’s
a new month, and within that new month is a new season:spring!It’s also the fun holiday of St. Patrick’s Day.For those of us with a wee drop of Irish
blood in us, it’s a day to celebrate our heritage and proudly wear the green (or
orange).Most people, whether they are
Irish or not, have fun with the holiday.Wearing green, pinching those who forgot, making paper shamrocks, and
eating green Jell-O (and of course, Lucky Charms!) are some favorite childhood
memories for many of us.

As
we get older, we look forward to March as a time to begin new projects – or
finish old ones!If you’re lucky enough
to have a green thumb, you might start poring over seed catalogs and dream of a
beautiful green lawn, gorgeous flowers, and healthy vegetables flourishing in
the garden.If you have a black thumb
like me, those seed catalogs tend to pile up in the corner and we just settle
for not killing any new growth!Perhaps
your interests lie more to do with getting outside and enjoying nature – such
as hiking, four-wheeling, looking for wildflowers or trying something daring
like rappelling down the side of a cliff.Maybe you take camera in hand (along with lenses, tripod, and other
photographic equipment) out to capture the start of new growth and new
life.Tiny little plants, buds just
starting to open, new lambs and fawns and other animal life, and the beauty of
a serene sunrise, a spectacular sunset, or wildflowers that grow without any
rhyme or reason – these are all amazing sights of Mother Nature to capture!

You
may be wondering:what does any of this
have to do with storage units??All of
these opportunities to celebrate, plant, move, and snap require equipment.Gardening gloves, fertilizer, planters, and
those seed catalogs need a place to live.Hiking shoes, trail sticks, maps, and ropes need a place to live.Photography has an amazing array of
accessories that seem to grow and multiply right before our eyes!If you have a garden or tool shed, that’s
great!Is it organized?Is it beautiful like the garden “shed” that
Joanna Gaines just built?That was the
fanciest, most amazing garden shed ever!I mean, what garden shed has a chimney??

What
about that hiking and climbing equipment?My husband loves climbing and has special shoes, ropes, pitons,
carabiners, and stuff I don’t even know!That, too, needs a place to be stored.Those special ropes don’t want to be mixed up with ordinary household rope!
(I learned that one the hard way!)How
often will you go climbing if it takes two hours to locate all the gear you
need?

And
for you shutterbugs out there:has your
hobby developed into an obsession?Is your darkroom a converted bedroom? Are lenses and tripods being tripped over or even (eek!) being stepped on? Do you have stacks of photographs piling up on every surface?

We’re
looking at some serious storage issues here.We don’t want to give up on what we love but we also want to have room to
move around in our own homes!What’s the
answer?A storage unit!!

A
storage unit gives you the extra space you need for all the equipment your
hobbies entail.Got 20 tennis racquets
but can’t bear to part with them?Throw eighteen
of them in a unit until you need them!All that climbing gear that lives on the floor – give it a home in a
storage unit!Is that fly-tying gear
becoming a pain in the bass?Shove it in
a storage unit!You can pick up what you
need on the way to the lake (or secret fishing hole!).

Do
you have a teetering stack of baseball caps that your wife is threatening to
throw out?Unless you’re a professional
baseball player, you probably don’t really need
all those caps, but perhaps (like most men) you just can’t bear to part with
them.In fact, the older and cruddier
the hat, the more you love it – right?Throw a few hundred of them in a box and head over to the storage unit!It’s out of your wife’s hair and you get to
keep your beloved scalp covers.

If
you had more room, would you dare to try a new
hobby?Would you try scuba diving or
snorkeling if you had a place to store the tanks, fins, wet suits, and
breathing masks?Or maybe you already
tried scuba diving and it wasn’t your cup of tea.All that gear lurking in the back of your
hall closet just makes you feel guilty for not using it every time you need
your umbrella.Dive right in and put all
that equipment in a storage unit and free up your closet and your conscience!

If
your significant other doesn’t see the wisdom of paying for storing stuff,
perhaps you could impress them with a beautifully cleaned-out (and clean!) closet.Maybe you could put a vase of flowers where
those old ball caps used to be.Perhaps
you could turn the former darkroom into a man cave for that special guy.(Or a lady’s lair for the woman in your
life!).Get creative – just one or two
ideas like these can really pave the way for their appreciation of the extra
space in your home – and you still get to keep all your stuff!

When
considering a storage unit, be sure to look for units that are airtight,
rodent-proof, and secure.Container
storage units are a great way to keep your things (valuable or less so) from
getting dusty, dirty, or discarded.A
storage unit is not a lifetime commitment, either.If you only need to store those items until
your spring garage sale, great!If you
need to keep family gifts for a while longer, that’s great too!You can always get to your stuff when you
need to with 24-hour access and your own security code.Happy hobbies!